The project — which marks Shyamalan’s first stab at scripted television — follows the son of a billionaire tech genius who, after the unexpected passing of his parents, offers up a big financial reward to anyone who can find proof of life after death.

Additionally, Syfy has given a 90-minute pilot order to High Moon fromFuller, our sister site Deadline reports.

An adaptation of John Christopher’s 1969 young adult sci-fi novel The Lotus Caves, the potential series centers around a future in which the countries of Earth have established colonies to mine the moon’s resources. However, chaos erupts after a new life form is discovered.

Jim Danger Gray (Pushing Daisies) will write the project and serve as an executive producer alongside Fuller — who’s also working on Mockingbird Lane and Hannibal for NBC — and Robert Halmi Sr. (Neverland).

Don’t be too quick to write off Syfy – they’ve actually got a pretty good lineup of shows these days. Alphas has some fantastic, prickly character writing and acting; Being Human is in many ways smarter than the British original (which is itself a brilliant bit of TV); Eureka had more quirky charm than Warehouse 13 ever will muster (not that WH13 isn’t fun in its own way). And though it isn’t out until next year, Defiance looks really ambitious.

I agree that both Alphas and Being Human are great shows but I would put them in the “fantasy” genre. Syfy has a tendency to treat their actual “sci-fi” shows very poorly, i.e. Anything that begins with Stargate and as mentioned below, Eureka.

I fear for a smart well-written sci-fi show by Bryan Fuller and what Syfy will do to it.

By “treat poorly” do you mean “cancel early” or “write badly”. If the former, then I’d agree that Stargate: Universe should have run longer; if the former, then I’d agree that the other two were on several more seasons that necessary :)

The British version wins hands down on characters, but I always get the sense that it’s sort of stumbling in the dark story-wise. The American version just seems to be a bit better plotted out (plus they haven’t yet had to pull a super-awkward, fairly abrupt cast overhaul)

Well, the Brit version was on for 3 seasons before the cast change; the American version has only been on 2 seasons. I doubt the American version would survive after a cast change, though, and I don’t think it’s going to happen. British TV tends to have more TV/film crossover actors–it’s a blessing and it can cause cast changes when the actor suddenly becomes unavailable (say, because he’s filming The Hobbit for many months).

How do you consider wrestling and reality shows 4 nights a week to be a good lineup. Sure they (barely) have a couple good shows left, but calling that a good lineup is like putting a couple marshmallows in a cup of raw sewage and calling it coco.

Scifi just means “science fiction.” Proof of life after death–science… yet this is a fictitious story. Science fiction. Even though I truly lament the ultimate lack of “space” shows on Syfy now (Stargate: Universe, I barely knew ya), Syfy still airs what is considered science fiction–just a lot more grounded science fiction. They no longer deal primarily in the spaceships/aliens/sea, sand and forest monsters idea of science fiction. A change which I believe was to open up the audience to more than just B-movie nostalgics and comicon attendees.

I’m a big fan of Shyamalan, so I’m looking forward to it. Most of the time, I think people miss the point of his work, but I find it fascinating. They’re the sort of stories that people would fawn all over in novel form, but the audience usually isn’t willing to examine movies in the same way as books. Which is fine and cool for those people, but I love his work.

I always think when people feel they are in the minority of understanding art its a little pretentious but i do agree with your analysis that some of his movies would make great novels. But those are his best movies i think he gets a bit self indulgent and pretentious himself. With that said i think the change in medium will highlight why everyone liked him in the first place. Allowing him to prolong the twists and turns.

Good, i’m sick of all their reality shows although i’m sure they are working on some new ones maybe Haunted Toilets, Ghost Cars or something . I’ll give any of their real shows a try. I still miss Eureka… gone too soon